Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left a deficit of $1.8 billion, which, Johnson carefully emphasized, would be "one of the lowest in many years." In fact, he said, the cash budget for fiscal 1967 (as opposed to the smaller administrative budget, which does not include such ready-cash sources as social security payments and highway funds) would actually show a surplus of $500 million...
This was a grab bag within a grab bag. Among other things, the President called for 1) a Highway Safety Act to cut down on traffic deaths, 2) a plan to "rebuild entire sections and neighborhoods" in some U.S. cities as well as "stimulate and reward planning for the growth of entire metropolitan areas," 3) an end to pollution of rivers, 4) an attack on "crime and lawlessness" through a federal program to "modernize and strengthen local police forces," 5) a bill requiring honest labels on packages, 6) a program demanding that all interest and credit charges be fully revealed...
...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...sign of the vast highway networks, bridges, dams, or even cities on Earth could be found on the photos, said Sagan. Even differences in shading caused by seasonal changes in vegetation were difficult to detect, although many of the pictures were taken months apart. Concluded Sagan: the Mariner 4 pictures neither prove nor disprove the possibility of life on Mars...
...four U.S. attack squadrons are stationed at Thai airbases near Takhli and Ubon, while sleek RF-101 Voodoos fly from Udorn on reconnaissance missions above the Laotian part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail (TIME, Dec. 17). Gaily colored Thai trucks rumble by night up the U.S.-built Friendship Highway lugging bombs and jet fuel to the bases. New, laterite-surfaced "security roads" run up to Thailand's northern borders, providing ready access for Thai counterinsurgency forces and routes for any future U.S. buildup aimed at turning North Viet Nam's western flank. From Nakhon Phanom...